Almuñécar, Iberia · c. 8th–7th c. BCE
Sexi
ṣkṣ
Salt and fish
Almuñécar. Sexi. A Tyrian colony on the Granada coast: fish-salting, Melqart on the coins, graves on Cerro de San Cristóbal.
The rocks of Sexi
Later castle on the harbor rocks · Almuñécar / ṣkṣ · Granada coast
Peñones de San Cristóbal — Sexi’s door; Laurita necropolis nearby
Wikimedia Commons · Almunecar.jpg
Gad Yaton: Fish, salt, Melqart on the coins. The castle is later. The rocks were already a door.
The rocks
The photograph is the Peñones — later castle on the harbor rocks of Almuñécar. Sexi sat here. The Laurita necropolis on Cerro de San Cristóbal held alabaster jars and cremated dead, a Tyrian grave-habit planted on Iberian ground.
El Majuelo still shows the basins of a fish-salting works. The craft is older than the Roman name Firmum Iulium Sexi. Salt, fish, a quay.
Melqart on the reverse
Sexi’s coins carried Melqart and fish. The lord of Tyre at a small door. Not a capital. A workshop on the string between Malaka and Abdera.
The west comes for sugar cane and beaches. The graves were first.
The vats and the jars
El Majuelo’s basins are the witness you can still walk: fish, salt, a craft older than the Roman overlay. Laurita’s alabaster jars held cremated dead — Egyptian stone in a Tyrian grave on a Granada hill. The Peñones are later castle on older rocks.
They kept the castle on the Peñones. They forgot the vats. Melqart and tuna on the same coin. A small door on the string between Malaka and Abdera. Still a door. The west comes for sugar cane. The graves and the basins were first.
Gad Yaton: the castle is later. The rocks were already a door. Tuna and the lord of Tyre on the same metal.